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French Sports CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Technical sports advisors to sports federations

Article R131-24

Staff working as sports technical advisors must exercise professional discretion with regard to all facts, information or documents of which they are aware, particularly concerning the Ministry of Spo…

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French Sports CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Technical sports advisors to sports federations

Article R131-23

A framework agreement, signed by the sports minister and the federation president, sets, for a period that cannot exceed four years, the number of agents likely to work for the federation at national…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 5: Consent to the apprenticeship programme

Article R1161-26

A patient may or may not accept to take part in a learning programme defined in article L. 1161-5, which is proposed to him by the doctor prescribing the medicinal treatment. This acceptance must be g…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 4: Implementation of the apprenticeship programme

Article R1161-24

Operators must comply with all the following obligations: 1° The salaried director of the operator and the healthcare professionals in charge of carrying out the operations provided for in the program…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 4: Implementation of the apprenticeship programme

Article R1161-22

The programme is run by an operator, chosen and contracted for this purpose by the company marketing the medicinal product. The operator is chosen on the basis of the guarantees of independence that i…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 4: Implementation of the apprenticeship programme

Article R1161-23

The company informs doctors of the existence of learning programmes. The doctor prescribing the treatment may suggest that his patients who could benefit from this programme take part in it. If the pa…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 4: Implementation of the apprenticeship programme

Article R1161-25

The company exploiting the medicinal product produces a follow-up report at the end of each programme or at the latest when it is renewed. The report is sent to the treating doctor, the prescribing do…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Paragraph 4: Guarantee commitments

Article L313-22-1

Credit institutions or finance companies which have provided a surety, endorsement or guarantee, whether of legal, regulatory or contractual origin, have recourse ipso jure and in all cases against th…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Operating credit

Article L313-12-2

Every quarter, the Banque de France publishes a document based on the volume of outstanding loans and new loans granted by credit institutions or finance companies to businesses, showing the share and…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Paragraph 2: Provisions relating to the enforcement judge

Article D49-35-2

The warrant to bring in a person issued in an emergency by the public prosecutor pursuant to the third paragraph of Article 712-17 may be sent by any means to the police service or gendarmerie unit re…

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